NYT CROSSWORD • MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2026

NYT Crossword Answers Jan 26, 2026

Complete answer list for the January 26, 2026 New York Times Crossword. Across and Down, every clue, every answer — plus the full grid below.

By Erica Hsiung WojcikEdited by Will ShortzGrid 15×1578 clues

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Across 37

  1. 1Pie nut ↗PECAN
  2. 6Boring task ↗SLOG
  3. 10"I want to be in the loop on this email" ↗CCME
  4. 14Love, Italian-style ↗AMORE
  5. 15Walking stick ↗CANE
  6. 16Sounds of inspiration ↗AHAS
  7. 17Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star] ↗ROSEGARDEN
  8. 19Get gooey, maybe ↗MELT
  9. 20Backstreets ↗ALLEYS
  10. 21Spooky ↗EERIE
  11. 22___ one and only ↗THE
  12. 25Itinerary calculation, in brief ↗ETA
  13. 26Connections ↗INS
  14. 28Purple yam used to flavor desserts ↗UBE
  15. 29Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician] ↗BESTCOMEDYALBUM
  16. 33Truffle pigs' assets ↗SNOUTS
  17. 34Connection between topics ↗SEGUE
  18. 35"Over here!" ↗PSST
  19. 36___ Vicious ↗SID
  20. 37Increase ↗GOUP
  21. 41"Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film) ↗THING
  22. 44Food court pizza chain ↗SBARRO
  23. 46North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member] ↗DAVIDSONCOLLEGE
  24. 50Allhallows ___ ↗EVE
  25. 51Cut, as grass ↗MOW
  26. 52Beverage that may come in a pint ↗ALE
  27. 53Cry between "Ready" and "Go!" ↗SET
  28. 54Parisian thanks ↗MERCI
  29. 56Waiter or waitress ↗SERVER
  30. 59"Do ___ others …" ↗UNTO
  31. 60Athletic trifectas … or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across ↗THREEPEATS
  32. 64Wishes undone ↗RUES
  33. 65Fireplace fuel ↗LOGS
  34. 66Jadedness ↗ENNUI
  35. 67Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say ↗SEXT
  36. 68Ones appointed by corp. boards ↗CEOS
  37. 69No-nos ↗DONTS

Down 41

  1. 1Number on a golf card ↗PAR
  2. 2Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure ↗EMO
  3. 3Modern lead-in to play ↗COS
  4. 4Space ↗AREA
  5. 5Fail to take care of ↗NEGLECT
  6. 6"Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g. ↗SCREAM
  7. 7Noblewoman ↗LADY
  8. 8Like a biased presentation ↗ONESIDED
  9. 9Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha ↗GEN
  10. 10Arrived ↗CAME
  11. 11Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" ↗CHERUB
  12. 12Beach city west of Los Angeles ↗MALIBU
  13. 13Think highly of ↗ESTEEM
  14. 18Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally ↗ALTOS
  15. 21Jacob's brother in the Bible ↗ESAU
  16. 22Baker's meas. ↗TBSP
  17. 23Mothers of barnyard chicks ↗HENS
  18. 24Those, in Spanish ↗ESOS
  19. 27N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards ↗NYG
  20. 30___-frutti ↗TUTTI
  21. 31Endorse digitally ↗ESIGN
  22. 32Corporate department that handles contracts ↗LEGAL
  23. 36Oversize article of winter footwear ↗SNOWSHOE
  24. 38Metals that miners mine ↗ORES
  25. 39Egg (on) ↗URGE
  26. 40T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden ↗POET
  27. 42Kind of port in A/V ↗HDMI
  28. 43Prefix with -metric or -morphic ↗ISO
  29. 44Puzzle out ↗SOLVE
  30. 45Censored, as on an audiotape ↗BLEEPED
  31. 46Takes exception ↗DEMURS
  32. 47Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan ↗AVENUE
  33. 48Point of a polygon ↗VERTEX
  34. 49Stroke lovingly ↗CARESS
  35. 55"It'll ___ ya" ↗COST
  36. 57Thus ↗ERGO
  37. 58Nevada city near Lake Tahoe ↗RENO
  38. 60Extra attention, in brief ↗TLC
  39. 61Journalist Curry ↗ANN
  40. 62Famed Egyptian king, for short ↗TUT
  41. 63Bro's sibling ↗SIS